John-Michael Kuczynski

List of John Benjamins publications in which John-Michael Kuczynski is involved.

Titles

Empiricism and the Foundations of Psychology

John-Michael Kuczynski

Intended for philosophically minded psychologists and psychologically minded philosophers, this book identifies the ways that psychology has hobbled itself by adhering too strictly to empiricism, this being the doctrine that all knowledge is observation-based. In the first part of this two-part… read more

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 87] 2012. viii, 477 pp.

Conceptual Atomism and the Computational Theory of Mind: A defense of content-internalism and semantic externalism

John-Michael Kuczynski

What is it to have a concept? What is it to make an inference? What is it to be rational? On the basis of recent developments in semantics, a number of authors have embraced answers to these questions that have radically counterintuitive consequences, for example:One can rationally accept… read more

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 69] 2007. x, 524 pp.

Articles

Kuczynski, John-Michael 2006 Review of Reimer & Bezuidenhout (2004): Descriptions and Beyond Pragmatics & Cognition 14:1, pp. 196–204 | Review

Kuczynski, John-Michael 2004 A non-Russellian treatment of the referential-attributive distinction Pragmatics & Cognition 12:2, pp. 253–294 | Article

Kripke made a good case that “…the phi…” is not semantically ambiguous between referential and attributive meanings. Russell says that “…the phi…” is always to be analyzed attributively. Many semanticists, agreeing with Kripke that “…the phi…” is not ambiguous, have tried to give a Russellian… read more